Ezekiel 15 -- Old Testament -- Gospel Daily

Ezekiel

Chapter 15

Jerusalem as a Useless Vine

God poses a riddle asking what value a vine tree has compared to other forest wood when its wood cannot be used for any work and is fit only for fuel. God compares Jerusalem to a vine that has been cast into the fire, with its ends and middle burned. God declares that as this useless vine is given to fire for fuel, so He will make the inhabitants of Jerusalem to pass through fire—they shall go out of one fire only to be devoured by another. God will set His face against them, making the land desolate because of their trespass.

Useless vineFire of judgmentDesolationNo refugeTrespass

¹And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

²Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

³Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

⁴Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

⁵Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

⁷And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

⁸And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.